The air crackled with a silent outrage. The latest complaint, slipped under her door, accused her of creating a "disturbance". It was a single, curt sentence, signed by the landlord. She felt her face burn.

She snatched the letter from the floor, her movements jerky. She ripped it in half, then tore the pieces into smaller and smaller shreds.

She slammed her fist on the table, the force rattling the dishes. She wanted to destroy something. The injustice of it all, that this was how she was being treated. It was too much.

Emotion: furious

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -2.01 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion furious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 furious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the furious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the furious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.461
0.376
🤬0.338
aggravated0.313
est0.304
Suppressed:
a-0.356
de-0.334
L-0.308
H-0.301
adventurous-0.256